Monday, Chief Medical Examiner for Tarrant County, Dr. Nizam Peerwani, advised the Court on how they should proceed. Tarrant County's Medical Examiners Office is actually a district that serves three additional counties: Parker, Denton, and Johnson.

According to County Judge Curtis Parrish, the Court has decided they will likely hire a licenced physician to replace NAAG Pathology Labs as the County Medical Examiner.

But because a physician cannot perform full autopsies, Lubbock County will outsource autopsies to forensic pathologists in Tarrant County, at least for the foreseeable future.